Yami Bakura

Comparision of the voice over actors who have been the voice of Yami Bakura with sound clips and images.

Yami Bakura is the evil spirit that resides in the Millennium Ring. Yami Bakura has the option to control and take over Bakura's body whenever he wants. Yami Bakura is a recurring villain throughout the series. Yami Bakura's goal is to collect all 7 Millennium items so he can use their powers.

Yami Bakura is a combination of a Thief King from ancient Egypt and of the demon Zorc Necrophades. Yami Bakura also controls powerful shadow magic and can turn normal games into Shadow Games. He can also send people to the Shadow Realm.

In the English dub version of the anime by 4Kids Entertainment, Yami Bakura was voiced by Ted Lewis.

In a lesser known English dub by Odex Ltd Yami Bakura was voiced by Chuck Powers.

Comments

I guess both are better fitted as this version of Bakura than the normal one... I already said my word on the main page though of the two, definetely Ted he has one of the better voices in the English version of the series as well, Chuck was rather corny sounding

My Favourite Voice from Ted Lewis. It's Unnervingly Malevolent, Monstrously British and Oh So Entertaining. Though the 5th Season of Yu-Gi-Oh was a Mixed Bag for me, Lewis' Yami Bakura stole the Show with the awesomeness of his Sardonic Menace.

1. Ted Lewis
Despite the fact that 4Kids censored a lot of Yami Bakura's more scary moments, Ted Lewis' Yami Bakura still creeps the heck out of me. He sounds so menacing and scary and the accent amplifies that. Not to mention he has an epic evil laugh.

2. Chuck Powers
No. Normal Bakura was already a joke, but his Yami Bakura is just as bad. He sounds bored rather than the living embodiment of evil. Odex may have kept Yami Bakura's creepy moments, but Chuck Powers' performance kills the creepy factor in those scenes.

(Side note: Rica Matsumoto's Yami Bakura scares the heck out of me as well. Who would have thought that this same actress also played Satoshi from Pokemon?)

Ted Lewis's Yami Bakura sounds absolutely diabolical and sinister, the deep English accent which he would also use for Giovanni just fits an cunning villain perfectly. He truly sounds epic in the role.

Chuck Powers is doing a Peter Lorre impression......WHY? Like I can understand Weevil having this kind of voice but Bakura....now that's just pushing it. Another thing is that it sounds so far away from the southern cowboy voice Chuck did for regular ol' Bakura while Ted Lewis sounds more consistent, like other than a change of pitch, tone and attitude, the voice tells you that this is a darker alter-ego to this character, with Chuck they sound like too different terrible voices that don't fit this character period.

Actually that background music is from the Original Japanese version of the show, but oddly enough, I like the 4Kids dub's background music score more in Ted's clip. Suprisingly, it seemed to give off a more Egyptian feeling.

Anyway, forgetting that, Ted Lewis is much better and he's my pick for the best actor for Yami Bakura. He has this very evil feeling to his voice and it's very creepy and fitting for the character. Chuck sounds like a Southern gentleman doing a bad imitation of Peter Lorre or something as others have said before.

Ted really has that cold and calculated performance that really makes Yami Bakura very sinister. Chuck Powers sounds like a really bad impersonation of Peter Lorre, is there a good side? ...........I guess it has the potential to be an internet meme.